Kelly Byrd
Advisor at GuestOS
California, United States
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Top SchoolKelly Byrd is a veteran software leader and advisor based in California with over two decades of engineering and management experience across startups and large enterprises. He has led teams and built core platforms in environments from VMware and Proofpoint to identity and fraud startups, combining hands-on development in languages like Go, Java, Swift, Python with people management and operational leadership. As a founder at Redcoat AI he shipped iOS clients, Go backends and TypeScript admin tooling while handling production/IT, hiring, sales and compliance—then intentionally pivoted onward. Kelly also contributes to open source, notably improving the OpenTX Companion UI and model handling for a popular custom firmware project, showing a continued affinity for practical, user-facing tooling. Now semi-retired, he selectively advises companies (currently GuestOS) where his blend of product judgment, security-focused platform experience, and pragmatic engineering chops accelerate early-stage technical decisions. Colleagues value him for steady technical stewardship that pairs deep system-level knowledge with a founder’s appetite for rolling up his sleeves.
13 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bullard High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
English, German
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Github Skills (20)
c-language10
qt10
firmware10
model-management10
front-end-development10
emitter10
cprogramming-language10
user-interface9
hashmap9
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
collections9
rpm6
linux6
vmware-workstation6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
opentx/opentx
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
OpenTX custom firmware for Transmitters
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 1 branch in 7 days
Contributions summary:Kelly primarily worked on enhancing the Companion application for the OpenTX firmware. They added features to the Companion application, including the ability to rename, duplicate, and paste models, and also improved the category context menu. The contributions include significant code changes to the application's UI and model handling logic. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs related to pasting multiple items within the Companion application, and made code changes to improve the GUI in the 480x272 version.
custom-firmwaretransmitterfirmwareopentx
kellybyrd/helium-wallet-rs
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Rust implementation of a helium wallet CLI
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 5 months
cli-walletheliumrustblockchainwallet
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